QA Automation Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automation QA Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 748 711 703
Rank change year-on-year -37 -8 -92
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 23 51 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.083% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.093% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 22 41 126
10th Percentile £35,575 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,938 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,875 £70,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,715 54,769 68,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 47,210 31,112 43,042
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured QA Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for QA Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Automation Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +1 5 £52,500 -8.70% 1
South West -24 5 £57,500 +76.92% 1
Scotland - 5 £52,500 - 1
East of England +17 3 £37,500 -
Midlands +13 3 £40,000 -27.27%
West Midlands +12 3 £40,000 -27.27%
North of England +31 2 £62,500 +38.89% 2
Yorkshire +90 1 - - 2
North West +7 1 £62,500 +38.89%
QA Automation Engineer
UK

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, QA Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) QA
1 23 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (73.91%) Agile
3 13 (56.52%) QA Automation
4 11 (47.83%) Java
4 11 (47.83%) Selenium
5 9 (39.13%) Cucumber
6 8 (34.78%) Software Testing
6 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (30.43%) Spring
8 6 (26.09%) Scrum
8 6 (26.09%) BDD
8 6 (26.09%) Postman
8 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
8 6 (26.09%) API Testing
8 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
9 5 (21.74%) User Experience
9 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (21.74%) Test Strategy
9 5 (21.74%) Azure
9 5 (21.74%) Test Scripting
10 4 (17.39%) AWS
10 4 (17.39%) Electronics
10 4 (17.39%) Automotive
10 4 (17.39%) Games
10 4 (17.39%) SQL
10 4 (17.39%) Python
10 4 (17.39%) ISO 9001
10 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
10 4 (17.39%) Jenkins

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Selenium
2 9 (39.13%) Cucumber
3 6 (26.09%) Postman
4 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
5 3 (13.04%) Appium
5 3 (13.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (13.04%) JMeter
5 3 (13.04%) JUnit
5 3 (13.04%) Mockito
6 2 (8.70%) UI Automator
7 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
7 1 (4.35%) TestCafe
General
1 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Automotive
2 4 (17.39%) Electronics
2 4 (17.39%) Games
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Health Technology
3 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Spring
2 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.04%) Playwright
3 3 (13.04%) Web Services
3 3 (13.04%) WireMock
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Android
1 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
1 2 (8.70%) Mac OS X
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (73.91%) Agile
3 13 (56.52%) QA Automation
4 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (34.78%) Software Testing
5 6 (26.09%) API Testing
5 6 (26.09%) BDD
5 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 6 (26.09%) Scrum
6 5 (21.74%) Test Scripting
6 5 (21.74%) Test Strategy
6 5 (21.74%) User Experience
7 4 (17.39%) Code Quality
7 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.04%) Design Patterns
8 3 (13.04%) Fintech
8 3 (13.04%) Microservices
8 3 (13.04%) SDET
8 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
8 3 (13.04%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (17.39%) ISO 9001
2 4 (17.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle